In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.
Writing
Squeezes social commentary into a single building's worth of chaos.
Acting
Claudia Islas and Julissa anchor the tonal tightrope walk.
Director
José Estrada
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Mexico's 'Cine de ficheras' wave, where working-class spaces became sites of vulgar, subversive comedy — though this film's corpse-in-the-basement premise pushes darker than most.
José Estrada made this between his more serious political films; some critics read it as deliberate self-sabotage or exhaustion with the industry.
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